The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-08-11

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1hsrs Are 1fandfsds s-ssms very Queer
Dsalsrs snd Thsir Qussrsr rfaunts.
The most vociterous and possibly the
most prosperous OF the street vendors
are the toys who sell newspapers, none
Of whom need 60 home with less than %
for his days profit, while many, who
combine concentration with industry,
proudly avow their. ability to earn from
% to % . day. Within the past ten
years the flower trade of New York has
wonderfully increased. It 10 within the
recollection of our adult residents when
there were not more than half dozen
substantially based flower stores on
Manhattan Island. To-day there are
hundreds whose sales, however, would
not DO one-half the amount they now
reach were II not for the system
Of sending boys and girls upon
the streets and avenues and in
all public marts and places with little
punches and with large bouquets. At
the ferries, near the postofice, at the
stations Of the elevated roads, especially
along Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets, these little people, pertinacious,
persistent, pushing and insinuating, offer
their exquisite colorings to hurrying-
home public, while Broadway is sbso-
lutely lined from Fourteenth street to
Thirteenth, not alone with stores filled
with flowers, but with stands where men
and women sell hundreds Of dollars
worth every day, keeping sharp look
out also upon their little agents, who
dart into cars and stages, and run along
the side Of pedestrians, urging them
to buy their pretty punches.
The inside history Of this traffic in
flowers Il full Of romance, requiring no
very acute Imagination to define the mo-
tive which impels the purchaser to select
flowers for sweetheart, wife, children,
invalid friend or what not, while many a
sentimental vision rises before ones eyes
a. the home. or promiscuous tsbleau ID
disclosed upon the reception Of the same.
One would think that nothing but the
direst need could impel sturdy, well-de-
veloped men to stand from ten to fifteen
hours day manipulating gutta perchs
toy or blowing up baby balloons, jerking
wooden figures, spinning tops and exhib.
iting gimcracks in general. Yet all the
year through these men can be found
doing precisely these things. It ia
Q curious and lamentable fact that
the most brutal faces in this city
are to be found in the persons of dog
sellers. There are two or three fellows
down town and several ON Fourteenth
street whose countenances are sufficiently
repulsive to frighten any man, woman OF
child, in whose rough hands are daily
exhibited tiny puppies Of various
nationalities They seem patient and
stolid; they rarely beg examiners Il
purchase, but 1t can be readily understooi
that scores Of little dogs are yearly
transferred from the charge Of thes,
brutes to the more gentle care of ordinary
human beings out Of motives Of pures
sympathy. A few years ago there was al
incursion Of Cinnamon who peripateti
cally sold candies, figs, cigars and cigar
cites. These are almost entirely gone ou
| Of the street trade. Now and then Chi
naman ID found with . stand where frui
and cigars Of inferior quality are exposed
but very rarely. Their place, so far a
cigars are concerned, seems to have beer
taken entirely by rough-looking class
Of men in sailors garb, who hoodwink
the credulous by fairy tales Of smuggling
and confdentially, and with great se
crecy, sell cigars that would be dear q
i've cents hundred at five cents apiece
The quantity Of cheap jewelry worn BY
the lower classes in this community mus
be very great. In certain sections of th'
city half . dozen peddlers with trays
held by straps slung about the neck, cal
befound offering breastrins, rings, collar
studs and like manner Of cheap gewgaw
and ornaments for man, woman and chill.
at fabulously low rates. 1t would seen
- II an enormous trade must be dom
In order to furnish them comfortabl,
! subsistence, because II the whole stool